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Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

1985·90 min

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

Directed by Ron Jones

AdventureScience FictionDramaTV Movie

When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

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The Doctor

Peri Brown

The Governor

Sil

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John Nathan-Turner

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What is Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos about?

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos (1985) is about when the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

Who directed Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos?

Ron Jones directed Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos (1985).

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